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greenage
greenage

Reputation: 397

Finding two numbers in a string lua

I wish for some way to isolate the numbers 98 and 7,525.07 in the following string using lua.

"I can confirm todays incident total file has been uploaded. There are 98 incidents totalling 7,525.07"

What would be the best way to accomplish this?

I have this which picks up the first number, but I'm struggling on picking up the second figure

number = string.match(
    "I can confirm todays incident total file has been uploaded.   There are 98 incidents totalling  7,525.07",
    "%d+"
)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 419

Answers (1)

Mike V.
Mike V.

Reputation: 2205

if first value only numeric chars you can use this match:

local s = "I can confirm todays incident total file has been uploaded. There are 98 incidents totalling 7,525.07"
print (s:match(".-(%d+).-([%d%.%,]+)") )

Upvotes: 4

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